Forwarding the campaign announcement, and ideas from Aaron Halfaker. Pine ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Aaron Halfaker" <ahalfa...@wikimedia.org> Date: Feb 29, 2016 16:00 Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wmfall] Inspire Campaign on content curation & review launches today! To: "Chris Jethro Schilling" <cschill...@wikimedia.org> Cc: "Staff All" <wmf...@lists.wikimedia.org>, <g...@lists.wikimedia.org>, "Wikimedia Mailing List" <wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org>
I just finished submitting two ideas that I'd like to advise. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Automated_good-faith_newcomer_detection Build and deploy a machine learning model for flagging newcomers who are editing in good-faith. This has the potential to mitigate some of the secondary, demotivational effects when good-faith newcomers' work passes through curation/review processes. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Fast_and_slow_new_article_review Concerns about the introduction of spam into Wikipedia has lead Wikipedians towards implementing high speed new article review/curation processes. The speed at which editors tag articles for deletion via these processes is great for dealing with spam, but it might also be faster that good-faith new article creators can build their articles. We could build a machine learning classifier that is tuned to detect spammy article drafts. This would allow the new pages queue to be split into a high-speed spammy article review, and a low-speed article review that allows creators time to make a better first draft. I'll submit some more when I can. :) On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 4:56 PM, Chris "Jethro" Schilling < cschill...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am pleased to announce the launch of the second Inspire Campaign for > IdeaLab.[1] The theme of this campaign is focused on improving tasks > related to content curation & review in our projects: > > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire> > > Reviewing and organizing tasks are fundamental to all WIkimedia projects, > and these efforts maintain and directly improve the quality of our projects > in addition to increasing the visibility of their content. We invite > everyone to participate by sharing your ideas and proposals on how to > enhance these efforts. Constructive feedback and collaboration on ideas is > encouraged - your skills and advice can elevate a project into action. The > campaign runs until 29 March. > > All proposals are welcome - research projects, technical solutions, > community organizing and outreach, or something completely new! Grants are > available from the Wikimedia Foundation for projects developed during this > campaign that need financial support.[2] Google Hangout sessions are > available in March if you'd like to have a conversation about your ideas.[3] > > Join the Inspire Campaign and let’s work together to improve review and > curation tasks so that we can make our content more meaningful and > accessible. > > With thanks, > > Jethro > > [1] You can learn more about the results of the first Inspire Campaign > here: < > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Spring_2015_Inspire_campaign> > [2] <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Start> > [3] <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Events> (Note: If > another time would work better for you, feel free to e-mail me or ping me > on-wiki). > > --- > Chris "Jethro" Schilling > I JethroBT (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:I_JethroBT_(WMF)> > Community Organizer, Wikimedia Foundation > <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home> > > _______________________________________________ > Wmfall mailing list > wmf...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wmfall > > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l